David Cameron in politics was thought to be a masterAnd yet he took a gamble that resulted in disaster.He called a vote on Brexit which he hoped would be destroyingThe critics in his party he was finding quite annoying.

The experts were behind him, they were all of them RemainersTheir economic arguments were abolute no-brainersThe European leaders and Obama were for stayingTo leave would be unthinkable, appalling and dismaying.

What they didn’t take account of was the tensions and the tusslesWith the rules and regulations from the bureaucrats in Brussels.And most of all resentment that had grown throughout the nationAt the threat to British values by increasing immigration.

These arguments did not persuade most voters under fortyRejecting them as insular and bigoted and haughty.Yet older folk who never saw themselves as EuropeanHave voted overwhelmingly to shape the future eon.

So now the die is cast, they’ll have to face the consequences.On the border with the Scots they may soon be building fences.The Empire’s in the past with all its memories of gloryAnd the future that they’ve chosen is a very different story.